Things I love about my kids

Note: this is a post I started and never finished in 2010. I clicked publish and blogger moved it up to today's date and I can't seem to fix that.



We are out of the baby stage for sure and I miss it and am happy it's over at the same time. The stage we are at now is pretty great - our kids are 3 and 6 and they still like us, want to spend time with us, and are still innocent in their perspectives and behavior. Nobody's jaded, they still don't do sarcasm, there's minimla eye rolling. The whining, purposeless crying, and fighting over toys are annoying, but I feel every day how lucky I am to be in this stage with them - before they break away from me completely.

Audrey - I go into her room at night and she smells like kid sweat because she has so many blankets on her. Everyone of her dolls and stuffed animals is tucked in at bedtime. She dresses herself in the oddest combinations and loves how she looks. She sings all the time. She loves to entertain Claire. Lately she talks a mile a minute. She bursts into tears when Claire gets hurt, especially when she has had something to do with it. what is really fun about audrey right now is that she has no front teeth. they are coming in fast but for the last month she h as had this wonderful toothless smile and can't stop playing with that weurd gap. Occasionally she whistles unintentionally and I have been laughing in my mind, not wanting to make her self conscious but recently she noticed on her own and thinks it's pretty funny.

Claire - Claire is a little hot pocket when she sleeps - Mark calls it "baby Chernobyl" because she is so warm - and she refuses to use more than one blanket so around 5 am when she gets a little cold she cries. She tucks in her dolls and animals, too, but they get books for pillows and blankets.


Both my kids sing Mary Poppins songs WITH the accent. And sometimes they break into the accent for a few words here and there in regular conversation: like "strawburries" instead of strawberries.